2006/12/04 by J. M. Castro Cerón, M. J. Michałowski, J. Hjorth +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Galaxy #Gamma-ray burst #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Physics #Redshift #Spectral energy distribution #Star formation #Stellar mass #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/510618
published as Astrophys.J.653:L85-L88,2006 · 4 pages by emulateApJ, 1 table and 2 colour figures; published in ApJ Letters
openalex publication_date 2006/12/04 · arxiv created 2006/12/14 · arxiv updated 2011/02/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We analyze 4.5, 8, and 24 μm band Spitzer images of six gamma-ray burst host galaxies at redshifts close to 1. We constrain their star formation rates (SFRs) based on the entire available spectral energy distribution rather than the 24 μm band only. Further, we estimate their stellar masses ( M ⋆ ) based on rest-frame K -band luminosities. Our sample spans a wide range of galaxy properties: derived SFRs range from less than 10 to a few hundred solar masses per year; values of M ⋆ range from 10 9 to 10 10 M ☉ with a median of 5.6 × 10 9 M ☉ . Comparing the specific star formation rate (ϕ ≡ SFR/ M ⋆ ) of our sample as a function of M ⋆ to other representative types of galaxies (distant red galaxies, Lyα emitters, Lyman break galaxies, submillimeter galaxies, and z ~ 2 galaxies from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North field), we find that gamma-ray burst hosts are among those with the highest ϕ.